8-Bit Invaders

8-Bit Invaders! is the follow-up to 8-Bit Armies and 8-Bit Hordes. Control the military might of the Galactic Marine Corps or Invade with the devastating power of the Cranioids! Mine, Build, and Fight your way to victory! Conquering the Multiverse was never so easy. 8-Bit Invaders is cross-playable with 8-Bit Armies and 8-Bit Hordes!

HOW MUCH WILL 8-BIT-INVADERS COST?
8-Bit Invaders will launch at $14.99 in November as a standalone game. A launch discount will also be made available at that time.

THE MODERN MILITARY FACTIONS CAN ALREADY PLAY AGAINST THE FANTASY FACTIONS. DOES THAT MEAN THAT 8-BIT INVADERS WILL ALSO JOIN THE FIGHT?
ABSOLUTELY! As the Eternal Commander is once again summoned into battle, 8-Bit Invaders allows for the same crossover functionality that allowed players to play against Armies/Hordes in multiplayer.

WHAT IF I OWN ALL THREE GAMES? CAN I PICK ANY FACTION FOR MULTIPLAYER, SKIRMISH, AND QUICKMATCH?
Most definitely! As with Armies/Hordes, owners of all three games will be allowed to pick from any of the factions, as well as host on any of the Official Maps from all products.

WHAT IF I ONLY OWN ONE OF THE GAMES?
If you only own one of the games, you can still see and join any multiplayer or quickmatch game using the factions you have access to. This means that an Invaders player can join a game hosted by a Hordes player, and vice versa. Essentially, you won’t have the ability to choose the factions or the maps from the game you don’t own.

DOES THIS MEAN THAT SUPPORT FOR 8-BIT ARMIES/HORDES GOING AWAY?
NOPE!
As all three titles are interoperable, any updates made to Invaders will transfer over to both Armies and Hordes. For example, if we add a free map, or release another new multiplayer mode, ALL three games will receive the update.

WHAT CAN WE EXPECT FROM THE “CONQUER THE METAVERSE METAGAME” MENTIONED IN THE ANNOUNCEMENT?
As we move closer to release, we will provide you guys with more details on this exciting new feature!! (Honestly it’s something that we are all REALLY excited about and can’t wait to follow up with more details and screenshots!)

WHEN IS THE BETA?
No date has been set for the Closed Beta. We will hand select a number of active 8-Bit Armies/Hordes players to help us balance the additional two factions at least a couple weeks before launch.

[19:09] TDB | OliBeu: Will the mining behaviour on 8bI be different compared to 8bA and 8bH??
[19:11] TDB | OliBeu: looks like you place a building over oil rig.
[19:12] Torpid: There are harvesters. But they stay docked and don't move back and forth. Refineries increase drain rate rather than acting as a dock.

[19:17] Torpid: Invaders factions don't have superweapons. They do have 2 minor commander abilities each (similar to the radar abilities in hordes). Instead of supers, their SW building spawns an epic after the cooldown. If the epic dies, the cooldown resets (like supers) and it will eventually spawn a new one. THe epic replaces the supers for the new factions.

[19:19] TDB | OliBeu: damn thats massive!
[19:20] Torpid: yep, they are the biggest units we've made yet.
[19:20] biffy eh: They are so big we actually had to make everything else smaller and zoom the camera in

[19:48] Torpid: I'm not a fan of upgrades that just give you numbers changes to units or structures. I've always favored upgrades that give the player new choices and customization to their builds. I did the design for Grey Goo upgrades (and some of UaW's upgrades) :smiley:
[19:52] Torpid: @TDB | OliBeu Thanks. I've been doing this for 20 years. I do occasionally get some things right :smiley:
[19:54] TDB | OliBeu: i'm sure you've got asked this a 1000 times and must be annoying, but did you already worked for westwood before Petroglyph?
[19:55] Torpid: @TDB | OliBeu Yes. I started at Westwood in QA on Kyrandia 3. I moved to design in Tiberian Sun, and then took over as lead designer on the Firestorm expansion and Pirates: Legend of Black Kat.

[20:06] Bluey: @Torpid question , whats your role in 8ba ?
[20:07] Torpid: @Bluey I'm senior designer on the project. Most of my time is as a systems designer - I design the factions, then build them in the data system then balance them. I also do all of the passability passes on the maps as art finishes them up, and lots of other little things. Most of the time once I'm done with data on one game I'm designing the next one :smiley:

[19:58] TDB | OliBeu: who else came from westwood we know from here? well mike ^^
[19:58] Torpid: All the partners (including Mike), the producer and CEO, several of the engineers.
[19:58] Torpid: Oh and our HR person.
[19:59] Torpid: We used to have some Ensemble people here but they moved on.

First, we would like to thank everyone for your AWESOME support since the release of 8-Bit Armies back in April. Since launch, we’ve updated our first 8-Bit game 26 times using the feedback that you have shared with us - and we have no intention of stopping support now. 8-Bit Hordes has also received a half-dozen updates over the last couple months since launch and we have more planned for the future that we’re eager to release.

As you all know, our third game 8-Bit Invaders! is a sci-fi angle on RTS using the same fun blocky art style from the series. Our goal is to continue introducing the real-time strategy genre to a new audience and grow the total number of players online by making all three games compatible while keeping the gameplay accessible and easy to learn. With the third game, we’re also introducing a new campaign mode that allows players to persist their army across multiple worlds and think a little more strategically about what their next move should be.

While development of this new feature is coming along great (it’s already playable) – we also want to make sure we get it right. Since this is something very new and somewhat experimental, we’re spending extra time building a challenging AI to play against and integrating various modifiers like superweapons and territory bonuses at the galactic level. We also want to make sure features like save/load are in and working, since this is a game mode that will likely take longer to play than just one sitting.

As much as we want to get it into your hands soon, we’re going to take a little while longer so we have enough time for tweaking, and any further polish work that needs to happen. Because of this, we will be delaying the launch of Invaders until December. Our hope is to share some screenshots of this new game mode in the next few weeks so you can get a better idea of how it’s going to play. And course, we’ll be looking for some beta testers before launch so that we can make sure everything is balanced as well as it can be. We’ll let you know the exact date of the beta as we get closer to launch.

Finally, we mentioned above that your feedback has been invaluable in helping us decide what to focus on in our game updates. We’re still listening!

Due to popular demand, on December 11th we’ll be releasing a Unit Voice Pack DLC for 8-Bit Hordes which adds verbal responses for both the LightBringers and Deathsworn factions. These new voices recorded with professional actors and actresses add a lot of character to the game and we can’t wait for you to hear them. Best of all, we’re making this DLC available for the heavily discounted price of FREE! Even better, a Unit Voice Pack for 8-Bit Armies is also on the horizon to be released later.

Once again, we appreciate your support and the great feedback we’ve received through your reviews of the game. It’s really energizing for us to read through your comments and discuss what’s next for the future of the 8-Bit series. We couldn’t do it without you!

[22:17] TDB | OliBeu: shy question torpid on the main menu leak there was the metagame menu is it part of singleplayer or Multiplayer?

[22:18] TDB | OliBeu: because there was also campaign

[22:19] Torpid: @TDB | OliBeu That's the "conquer the multiverse" mode. It's single player.[22:20] TDB | OliBeu: okeii awsome this name somehow reminds me on SW empire at war galactic map(bearbeitet)
[22:20] Torpid: More like world domination. A closer example would be galactic mode from Empire at War.
[22:21] TDB | OliBeu: YES!
[22:21] Torpid: I can't really talk too much about it yet since it's still somewhat in flux.